LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.....too funny....when you're a member, as you obviously are, poopytoo, of an anti-science fringe cult of duped lunatics and ignorant idiots (i.e. - the astroturfed cult of AGW denial) saying that the majority of the population AND virtually the entire world scientific community "can be classified as a cult" is just further evidence of your insanity.
anti-science you say? You don't know me from Adam, yet you claim you do.
Everybody 'knows' you through your moronic posts. You can't say idiotic things without getting known to be an clueless idiot.
Science advances through research and sometimes old paradigms are overturned but that doesn't mean that the basic scientific understanding of reality in any particular area of science "
changes constantly". There is no real disagreement in the world scientific community on the reality and dangers of anthropogenic global warming, nor has any new research come along that changes any of the basic understandings of the mechanisms and processes of AGW.
I also know that a consortium of 2000 scientists does not represent the bulk of all scientists either, as claimed by the AGW's.
You seem to think you know a number of things that are, in fact, lies and misinformation that have funneled into your head by the propaganda campaign that the fossil fuel industry has sponsored to confuse the public about the actual high level of scientific agreement on this subject. It is not just some "
consortium of 2000 scientists" who are in agreement on AGW, it is virtually the entire world scientific community.
Scientific opinion on climate change
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The scientific opinion on climate change is that the Earth's climate system is unequivocally warming, and it is more than 90% certain that humans are causing it through activities that increase concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, such as deforestation and burning fossil fuels.[1][2][3][4] This scientific consensus is expressed in synthesis reports, by scientific bodies of national or international standing, and by surveys of opinion among climate scientists. Individual scientists, universities, and laboratories contribute to the overall scientific opinion via their peer-reviewed publications, and the areas of collective agreement and relative certainty are summarised in these high level reports and surveys.
National and international science academies and scientific societies have assessed the current scientific opinion, in particular on recent global warming. These assessments have largely followed or endorsed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) position of January 2001 which states:
An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system... There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.[5]
The main conclusions of the IPCC Working Group I on global warming were the following:
1. The global average surface temperature has risen 0.6 ± 0.2 °C since the late 19th century, and 0.17 °C per decade in the last 30 years.[6]
2. "There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities", in particular emissions of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane.[7]
3. If greenhouse gas emissions continue the warming will also continue, with temperatures projected to increase by 1.4 °C to 5.8 °C between 1990 and 2100. Accompanying this temperature increase will be increases in some types of extreme weather and a projected sea level rise.[8] From IPCC Working Group II: On balance the impacts of global warming will be significantly negative, especially for larger values of warming.[9]
No scientific body of national or international standing maintains a formal opinion dissenting from any of these three main points; the last was the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, which in 2007 updated its 1999 statement rejecting the likelihood of human influence on recent climate with its current non-committal position.[10][11] Some other organizations, primarily those focusing on geology, also hold non-committal positions.
You might actually want to look into the actual surveys and their methods.
You might want to jerk your head out of the rightwingnut media echo chamber and read the actual scientific conclusions of the actual climate scientists and not just the spin and lies you've been falling for.
